<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/cf285362-a960-480e-8570-6940e48efc4a/AFBAF26F-100E-4FFF-9B8A-136E20FB252B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://invisiblefist.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=1988864%3ATopic%3A2003" href="http://invisiblefist.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=1988864%3ATopic%3A2003" style="font-size: 11px;">invisiblefist.ning.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://invisiblefist.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=1988864%3ATopic%3A2003"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/invisiblefist.ning.com/img/ECFAD62D-8DE2-4F6E-8963-7B84DD05713B" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://invisiblefist.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=1988864%3ATopic%3A2003"><P>*<I>Windfall Taxes?</I>. Over the opposition of oil companies, <B>Republican</B> Gov. Sarah Palin and Alaska's Legislature last year <B>approved a major increase in taxes</B> on the oil industry — a step that has generated stunning new wealth for the state as oil prices soared.[<A href="http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/09/13/fueled_by_oil_taxes_alaska_spending_soared_under_palin/">3</A>] At a time when <I>the rest of us</I> Americans are feeling the pinch at the gasoline pump and oil companies are raking in record profits [<A href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89284546">4</A>], Sarah Palin's economic and energy policy decisions should be part of the debate this election.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://invisiblefist.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=1988864%3ATopic%3A2003"><P>While many other states are confronting big budget deficits because of the troubled economy, Alaska officials are in the enviable position of exploring new ways to spend the state's <B>multibillion-dollar budget surplus.</B> [<A href="http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/325207.html">6</A>]</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://invisiblefist.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=1988864%3ATopic%3A2003"><P>Sarah Palin's solution is to take profits from oil companies to help pay Joe Six Pack's unaffordable energy bill, which was caused by overpriced-overtaxed oil/gas.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/AFBAF26F-100E-4FFF-9B8A-136E20FB252B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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